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Anna Nicole’s bodyguard dishes about Stern


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As one of the last people to see Anna alive inside Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Moe confessed that several bad judgments by those around her may have played a role in the former Playmate’s untimely death.

“Do you blame Howard in part for not only Anna’s death, but for the way she lived her life in the last six months?” Potts asked.

“I think we all kind of helped her along, so he had, yes he had a part in it too,” Moe said.

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“So Howard had a part in Anna’s death, you had a part in Anna’s death?” Potts asked.

“We all have,” Moe replied.

In the days leading up to her death, Smith had been suffering from flulike symptoms.

On the morning of Feb. 8, she did not leave her bed and appeared to be sleeping. While Stern was out closing a deal on a new yacht, Moe left Smith with his wife, a registered nurse, while he ran errands. Shortly after it was discovered Smith wasn’t breathing.

“Did Howard transact or do anything that day that seems out of character [on the day Anna died]?” Potts asked.

“My wife was there and she really thinks there were weird things going on,” Moe said.

“Take me to the moment you get a call from your wife,” Moe then asked.

“I got a phone call saying that something wasn’t right, Anna’s not making no noise, and I can hear her going ‘Anna, Anna get up! Anna’s not breathing I need you to call 911 right away,’” Moe said.

Moe did not call 911 first. He called Stern.

“At a spur of the moment you do things again that you regret,” Moe said. “That is something I regret. I should not have called Howard first. I don’t think it would [have] made a difference. I hear some reports that she could have been down since early that morning.”

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“What is the biggest misconception about what happened on the day that Anna died that you would like people to know?” Potts asked.

“That she was an out of control druggie,” he said. “She was not an out of control junkie. She was a woman who was deeply depressed.”

Unable to recover after the tragic loss of her son Daniel, Moe said Smith turned to medications as a crutch.

“She had her medication that [were] handed to her, that she was helped [in taking],” Moe said.

“That was by whom?” Tony asked.

“It was usually by Howard,” Moe said.

According to Moe, it wasn’t just Stern who helped Smith get medicated.

Moe claims Larry Birkhead would assist her while the two were dating.

“I got more upset with him when he was in court and he said all these things about how he was trying to get Anna off drugs,” Moe said. “There were times that he would give her things to make her look or seem very out of it.”

“Such as?” Potts asked.

“Let’s just say that everything made her tipsy and [it] wasn’t always the champagne he was giving her,” Moe said. “I’ll leave it at that.”

When contacted by Access, Larry Birkhead said Big Moe “has no credibility.”

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